{"id":2758,"date":"2017-09-19T18:02:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2017-09-19T18:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:02:07","slug":"dartmoor-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/?p=2758","title":{"rendered":"Dartmoor Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10.25 miles in total.<br \/>\n3 river crossings<br \/>\n1 Clapper Bridge<br \/>\n2 Bogs<br \/>\n1 Volcano ascent<br \/>\n1 long uphill start<br \/>\n1 long downhill finish<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Dartmoor Volcano. 500m of ascent, (that&#8217;s twice the size of St Boniface Down as a comparison for you), and most of it in one enormous climb from the get go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5259.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2761\" src=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"695\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s all runnable&#8221; one of the organisers is quoted as saying on the races website.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm not so sure that&#8217;s entirely true&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5260.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2762\" src=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5260.jpg 920w, http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5260-768x180.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beginning at Scorriton, on the edge of Dartmoor. The course takes in Pupers Hill, Snowdon and South Devon&#8217;s highest point, Ryder&#8217;s Hill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I loved it!&#8221; said our Ian Dyer, with a huge post run grin on his face &#8220;It was the slowest, hardest 10 miles I&#8217;ve ever run. 6 miles of bogs and rocks. It was difficult to pick a route through the moor&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2758-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5269.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5269.mp4\">http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5269.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5258.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2760\" src=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"841\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But he made it all the way to the peak of the Volcano and successfully negotiated the huge descent and back to the start in 2 hours and 58 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5262.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2759\" src=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"565\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10.25 miles in total. 3 river crossings 1 Clapper Bridge 2 Bogs 1 Volcano ascent 1 long uphill start 1 long downhill finish Welcome to the Dartmoor Volcano. 500m of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}